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Bible Adventures: the NES game
Dec. 3rd, 2011 08:29 pmOKAY SO. About a week ago, me and K found, purchased, and then sat down and played the weirdest computer game I have ever, ever, ever played. It's an unlicensed NES (yeah, the original NES from when we were all children, and before some of you were even that!) game called "Bible Adventures" that it seems was sold largely in Christian Bookstores.
Here's a link if you don't believe me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Adventures
Now, I get the appeal of making a game like that. I wanna make that clear. This isn't a game designed to make you hate and fear all that is different because God told you to. This isn't aimed at Fox News viewers. This isn't a game I want to mock for its intentional message. No, this is a game made by a company that went bust and decided perhaps they could appeal to parents who'd rather their kids play games inspired by the Bible rather than an Italian plumber, some vampires or the Mob. And perhaps that is the problem because what resulted is quite possibly the most unintentionally blasphemous piece of hilarious surreality known to man or NES.
I present below, recorded for posterity, my live-tweets as I played through it, cus I realise now, I'd hate to lose them to the depths of my twitter feed forever.
( Bible Adventures: Fear God or Starve. )
Seriously, folks. This actually exists. Like, for real.
o.O
Here's a link if you don't believe me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Adventures
Now, I get the appeal of making a game like that. I wanna make that clear. This isn't a game designed to make you hate and fear all that is different because God told you to. This isn't aimed at Fox News viewers. This isn't a game I want to mock for its intentional message. No, this is a game made by a company that went bust and decided perhaps they could appeal to parents who'd rather their kids play games inspired by the Bible rather than an Italian plumber, some vampires or the Mob. And perhaps that is the problem because what resulted is quite possibly the most unintentionally blasphemous piece of hilarious surreality known to man or NES.
I present below, recorded for posterity, my live-tweets as I played through it, cus I realise now, I'd hate to lose them to the depths of my twitter feed forever.
( Bible Adventures: Fear God or Starve. )
Seriously, folks. This actually exists. Like, for real.
o.O
